Carriage-top.



PATENTED JUNE 30, 1908.

G. W. 000%. CARRIAGE TOP. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 12, 1905.

ficfJevc/ ares '60- 600795 CHARLES I COOPS, OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A 00 CARRIAGE-TOP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 13, 1905. Serial No. 287,034.

To all 10720112 it may CO'IZCHN.

Be itknown that I, (-HARLEs WILLIAM Coors, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Taunton, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented an improvement in Carriage-'lops, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification. like letters on the drawings represent\ ing like parts.

This invention has for its object the improvement of tops for carriages whereby the bows will not cut the top when down.

As now commonly made when the top of a carriage is down the material used for covering the top is folded and enters between the bows, and the latter, as the carriage is being run, jump and move laterally, and by rubbing the material wear holes therein.

To obviate wearing holes in or lnarring the material forming the covering for the top, I have provided the bows with devices that not only prevent the contact of the bows when the top is downbut which also aline the bows and prevent any lateral vibration of one how with relation to the other bows.

The devices for separating and alining the bows also stiffen the top so that any blow on the top is borne by all the bows.

Figure 1 shows part of an automobile or carriage body with the top down; Fig. 2 shows the bows and bow holders enlarged; Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional detail showing the device for separating and alining the bows; Fig. 4 is a face view of the socket, Fig. 8, detached Fig. 5 shows a modification, and Fig. 6 shows a cross-section of Fig. 5.

The top A, Fig. 1 is shownas down, and as pivoted on a stand A, secured to the body B at opposite sides of the rear seat. When the top is raised, the out a is detached, the two front bows are carried forward and the free end of the lower end of the bow-holder c is mounted on the stand 13 fast on the body at the sides of the frontseat.

The top comprises as shown four topholders 0, c, 0 0 at opposite sides of the body, each holder having a wooden bow, the latter being partially shown and designated by the letters (1!, (Z, d d".

The bowholder c'*'is jointed at 2 with the ear 3 of the bow holder c constituting the main bow-holder, it having an extension 4 pivoted at 5 on the stand A. Bow holder 0 l rigid, and

has another ear the bow holderc, pivoted to an ear iolder c.

The threaded pivots referred to each a a so that by holder may be which it is pivoted.

' The AssieNoR TO GQOPS MANUFAurr'sIxc RPORATION or MASSACHUSETTS.

Patented June 30, 1908.

6 on which is pivoted at 7 while the bow-holder c is 8 extended from the bowprojections constituting the receive a nut as a, a,

removing any nut, any bow removed from the ear on parts so far specifically described are and may be all as usual with the exception of the shape of the bow-holder which I will now describe.

Between the sides of the bows I have located. devices to prevent the side edges of the -)ows from contacting one withthe other, and

also foralining said bows, and preventing any lateral shifting or sliding of the bows one with relation to the'other.

These devices as I have chosen to illustrate the same, Figs. 2, 3 and 4 comprise a socket e having suitable ears for the reception of screws by which to attach the socket to the bow at the point desired. Eacl c shown as a piece. of

1 socket is provided with a butter india rubber or other suitable non-metallic material.

The edge of the ad acent bow as d 15 provided with a block 6 with holes for the re which to attach the shown in Fig. 3, said having ears provided ception of screws by device to the bow, device having a PIOJGC- tion 17 or being shaped as shown in Fig. 3 to enter the socket. The device 0, 6

serves two purposes, one as a stop to prevent contact of the bows one with the other, and also to aline and prevent any lateral movement of the bows or howholders.

When the bows do not contact the material covering the top, which may be leather,

cannot be pinched between the bows when the top is down, nor can the bows move or shake s1dew1se one with relation to the other, and consequent holding them that they ly the material ot' the top is not so pinched and rubbed that a hole ows cannot move laterally makes the top when down much more when down is resisted Preferably the devlc any blow on the side of the top by all the bows. c a. +9 will be put all in the same line crossing the entire seriesof bows, as shown in the drawing, Fig. 2.

at the top and so.

It is unnecessary to show any of the top of slightly diflerent shape, that is, instead ofthe socket and projection being substantially circular, they are oblong. I I

Fig. 6 is a section on the line 88, Fig. 5, and it will be seen that the buffer f has wings With the devices shown it is iinpossible for a bow to become marred when the top is down.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a carriage top, a bow having a socket provided with a buffer, and an adjacent bow having a projection entering said socket.

2. In a carriage top, a bow having a socket, and anadjacent bow rovided with a projection entering said soc et and serving to aline the bows and prevent lateral movement of one how with relation to another bow.

3. In a carriage or automobile top, a pin-- rality of bows, and spacing devices carried by adjacent bows and adapted to space one from the other when the top is folded, the

spacing device on one bow adapted to inter arms of thebows, of stops on. the facing sides of the arms, one having a socket made outwardly flaringand the neXt one provided with a tapered projection to engage in said flaring socket when the arms are in their closed relations.

In testimony whereof; I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' CHARLES w. OOOPS.

Witnesses:

GEO: W. GREGORY, MARGARET A. BUNN- 

